Triple

T17981933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stanger, Natal, South Africa E449621 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Stanger
William Stanger was a 19th-century surveyor and colonial official in Natal, South Africa, after whom the town of Stanger (now KwaDukuza) was named.
E1304773 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: William Stanger | Statement: [Stanger, Natal, South Africa, namedAfter, William Stanger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stanger
Context triple: [Stanger, Natal, South Africa, namedAfter, William Stanger]
  • A. William Stroudley
    William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
  • B. William Ruthven
    William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
  • C. Joseph Stangerson
    Joseph Stangerson is a fictional murder victim in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet," whose death helps unravel the story’s central mystery.
  • D. John Sturge
    John Sturge was a 19th-century English Quaker merchant and philanthropist known for his involvement in social reform and abolitionist causes.
  • E. Richard Carlisle
    Richard Carlisle is a wealthy, self-made newspaper magnate and ambitious suitor in the British period drama series "Downton Abbey."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: William Stanger
Triple: [Stanger, Natal, South Africa, namedAfter, William Stanger]
Generated description
William Stanger was a 19th-century surveyor and colonial official in Natal, South Africa, after whom the town of Stanger (now KwaDukuza) was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stanger
Target entity description: William Stanger was a 19th-century surveyor and colonial official in Natal, South Africa, after whom the town of Stanger (now KwaDukuza) was named.
  • A. William Stroudley
    William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
  • B. William Ruthven
    William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
  • C. Joseph Stangerson
    Joseph Stangerson is a fictional murder victim in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet," whose death helps unravel the story’s central mystery.
  • D. John Sturge
    John Sturge was a 19th-century English Quaker merchant and philanthropist known for his involvement in social reform and abolitionist causes.
  • E. Richard Carlisle
    Richard Carlisle is a wealthy, self-made newspaper magnate and ambitious suitor in the British period drama series "Downton Abbey."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8b9f9927c8190a006110c8b996e61 completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4b297b7108190a676409b330ca23b completed April 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a035d7b0be8819080e2c7c4d9ef49ae completed May 12, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a035f839e6c8190813755e3034498ec completed May 12, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a035fe7fa8c8190b855e606c591fed1 completed May 12, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:22 a.m.